Ivano-Frankivsk is one of the smallest regional centers of Ukraine and the gateway to the Carpathians. The city was founded by the noble Polish Potockis family; it is in commemoration of Stanislaw Potocki the city was called Stanislaw until 1962. It is known for its sparkling contemporary literature tradition (Stanislaw phenomenon).

Kryvorivnya is a small village in the Black Cheremosh river valley. In the XIX century, the village had a fame of the Ukrainian Athens, being a favourite summer destination for the UKrainian intellectual elites. Among them, there were Ukrainian poets Ivan Franko and Lesya Ukrayinka, and Mykhaylo Grushevsky, the first president of Ukraine in 1917-1918. Kryvorivnya has also become a birthplace for a classical novel about hutsuls and their traditions, namely «The Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors» by Mykhaylo Kotsyubynsky. Later on, the book went onscreen as a film of the same title, which was filmed in Kryvorivnya by a famous Soviet dissident director Serhey Paradzhanov. The film received high accolades internationally.

The Church Of The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin in Kryvorivnya, a complex of a wooden church and a bell tower built in the beginning of the XVIII century. It is another classical example of the wooden Hutsul sacral architecture. The church was a preaching place for the most outstanding patriarchs in the history of the Ukrainian religious life. It was always functioning even during Soviet times when most of the worship places were closed or ruined as a result of anti-religious state politics.

Verkhovyna is an administrative centre of the most desolate and elevated mountain area of Ukraine and by many it is perceived also as a center of Hutsul culture (Ukrainian poet and writer Ivan Franko described it as «Hutsul capital»). The name itself conveys the meaning «top of the mountain» or «elevated location», although until 1962, the village was called Zhabye. Due to its desolate location and difficult terrain, many authentic traditions still thrive in this area. There are no massive highways or polluting industrial productions here, making it one of the cleanest areas in Ukraine. Nowadays, Verkhovyna is a popular destination for outdoor tourism, mainly trekking and rafting on the Cheremosh river.

The Museum of the film «Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors» was opened in 2000 and describes the making history of the critically acclaimed and immensely popular film, which was shot in the area in 1963-1964. The museum is located in the house of the local Hutsul family, which hosted the film’s director and Soviet dissident Serhiy Paradzhanov during the shoot. The film, being a screen adaptation of the popular 19 century novel by the same name written by M.Kotsubynsky, showed an authentic indigenous culture of the Hutsul community, which led to the consequent persecution of the film crew for the nationalistic content by Soviet authorities. At the same time, it was a powerful artistic statement, which started the so-called ‘Ukrainian Poetic Film’, an influential esthetical phenomenon in the history of Ukrainian cinematic art.

Kosiv is a small town known as a center of traditional Hutsul crafts, such as widely-known Kosiv ceramics, wood carving and sheep wool blankets weaving. The town grew in the Middle Ages as a place of the salt mining and trade. In the XIX-mid XX centuries, it became a famous resort and wellness center.

Yavoriv is a most famous village of blanket weavers in Ukraine. In 1967, Yavoriv blankets were a Prize-winning entry at the World Exhibition in Montreal. Yavoriv is also known as a birthplace of Hasidism, an influential branch of Judaism. In the XVIIth century, Hasidism founder Yisroel (Israel) ben Eliezer, most commonly known as Baal Shem Tov, lived, prayed and meditated in the caves and mountains around Yavoriv for 7 years. As the results of his spiritual searches, he started to preach his ideas which later attracted many followers.

Vorokhta is a high-mountain resort (850 m asl) and a famous center for both winter and summer sports. Zaroslyak sports base, located in Vorokhta, is a starting point for hiking route to Hoverla, the highest mountain in Ukraine. Vorokhta is also famous for its favourable climate, with low atmospheric pressure, and high amounts of ozone and phytoncides in the air. (The village was founded in the XVIIth century.)

Vorokhta Viaducts are archwall railway bridges built in the end XIX century when these territories were a part of Austrian-Hungarian Empire. The biggest of the local viaducts, built in 1985, is 130 m long and 65 m high. It is a famous local point of interest and one of the biggest stone bridges in Europe.

Yaremche is a low-mountain resort ashore the Prut river, on the way to Hoverla, the highest mountain in Ukraine. The town was founded in 1787. In XIX-mid XX centuries, it used to be a holiday destination for vacationers from Lviv, Krakow and Warsaw. It was also a popular mountain resort during Soviet times. Nowadays, it is one of the most popular touristic destinations in the Ukrainian Carpathians. Hutsulschyna Restaurant is an exemplary modern interpretation of traditional Hutsul wooden architecture. It was built in 1959 without a single nail, with extensive use of wood carved finish. Probiy Waterfall is a cascade waterfall on the Prut river in Yaremche with the height over 20 meters.